Tonight two excellent but very different musicians play at the same time in different parts of the city and both are favorites around here.  Choosing between them will be tough, but let’s face it, when you have two great options, whatever your choice is, it will be a good one.

Over at Southpaw in Park Slope, you will find Eli Paperboy Reed and The True Loves. The band is an eight-piece affair (guitar, bass, drums, keys, trumpet, sax, baritone sax and Eli on vocals and guitar).  Musically, the band plays very good original soul numbers with some covers of some stuff going back to the 60s.  The biggest strength of Eli and the band is in their live show.  Eli, originally from the Boston area and now living in Brooklyn, is an engaging live performer.

Lelia Broussard plays upbeat pop rock which is never less than a pleasure.  Even though Lelia lives lives out in Los Angeles these days, she tends to play New York City in general, and The Rockwood Music Hall in particular, frequently. And right now Lelia is on the cusp of something interesting happening: she’s one of the two finalists in a contest whose prize is your picture on the cover of Rolling Stone.

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–Eliot Wagner